fastgws 0.1.1

A discovery-driven Google Workspace client

fastgws

fastgws is a discovery-driven Google Workspace client for Python and a thin CLI built on the same runtime.

It is designed around:

• lazy service/resource/method discovery
• generated method signatures and docs
• practical schema inspection and validation
• a simple CLI for calling the same endpoints from the shell

Install

pip install fastgws

For local development in this repo:

pip install -e .[dev]
python -m fastgws.build all

Quick Start

Python:

from fastgws import FastGWS

api = FastGWS()
res = api.drive.files.list(page_size=5)

for f in getattr(res, "files", []):
    print(f.id, getattr(f, "name", None))

CLI:

fastgws services
fastgws drive.files.list --page_size 5

Authentication

fastgws supports three main auth paths:

• OAuth user login for the CLI and local Python usage
• Google Application Default Credentials (ADC)
• service account credentials for Python

OAuth User Login For The CLI

This is the easiest way to get started locally if you want fastgws to manage user credentials for you.

1. Create a Google Cloud OAuth client of type Desktop app.
2. Download the client JSON from Google Cloud Console.
3. Run:

fastgws auth login \
  --client-secret /path/to/client_secret.json \
  --scopes https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly

This opens a local browser flow and saves:

• ~/.config/fastgws/client_secret.json
• ~/.config/fastgws/credentials.json

After that, normal CLI and Python calls can use the saved user credentials automatically:

fastgws drive.files.list --page_size 5

You can pass multiple scopes as a comma-separated list:

fastgws auth login \
  --client-secret /path/to/client_secret.json \
  --scopes https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly

Application Default Credentials

FastGWS() uses ADC when explicit credentials were not passed and no saved fastgws OAuth credentials exist.

Typical ADC options:

gcloud auth application-default login

or:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/service-account.json

Then:

from fastgws import FastGWS

api = FastGWS()

Python Auth Helpers

Explicit service account credentials:

from fastgws import FastGWS

api = FastGWS.from_service_account(
    "/path/to/service-account.json",
    scopes=["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly"],
)

Explicit authorized-user credentials:

from fastgws import FastGWS

api = FastGWS.from_authorized_user(
    "/path/to/credentials.json",
    scopes=["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly"],
)

Run a local browser OAuth flow directly from Python:

from fastgws import FastGWS

api = FastGWS.login_local(
    "/path/to/client_secret.json",
    scopes=["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly"],
)

Auth File Locations

By default, the CLI stores local auth state under ~/.config/fastgws.

You can override those locations with:

• FASTGWS_CONFIG_DIR
• FASTGWS_CLIENT_SECRET_FILE
• FASTGWS_CREDENTIALS_FILE

Python API

Create A Client

from fastgws import FastGWS

api = FastGWS()

Service shortcut clients are also available:

from fastgws import Drive, Gmail, Sheets

drive = Drive()
gmail = Gmail()
sheets = Sheets()

Discover The Surface

The runtime is lazy and notebook-friendly:

from fastgws import FastGWS
import inspect

api = FastGWS()

dir(api)
dir(api.drive)
dir(api.drive.files)
inspect.signature(api.drive.files.list)
print(api.drive.files.list.__doc__)

Make Calls

List files:

from fastgws import FastGWS

api = FastGWS()
res = api.drive.files.list(page_size=5)
print(res)

Search by file name:

res = api.drive.files.list(
    page_size=5,
    q="name contains 'report' and trashed = false",
)

Search indexed content:

res = api.drive.files.list(
    page_size=5,
    q="fullText contains 'quarterly forecast' and trashed = false",
)

Positional path parameters also work:

file = api.drive.files.get("FILE_ID")

Pagination

Use .pages() to follow nextPageToken:

for page in api.drive.files.list.pages(page_size=100):
    print(page)

Use .items() to iterate the main item collection:

for item in api.drive.files.list.items(page_size=100):
    print(item.id, getattr(item, "name", None))

Schema Inspection

Each method exposes a schema view:

schema = api.drive.files.create.schema
print(schema)

You can also inspect schemas by dotted path:

api.schema("drive.files.create")
api.schema("drive.files.create", resolve_refs=True)
api.schema("drive.File", resolve_refs=True)

Request Validation

fastgws validates known parameters and request bodies before sending requests.

Validation catches:

• missing required params
• unknown params
• simple scalar type mismatches
• enum violations
• nested request body shape errors where schema data is available

Disable validation for a single call:

api.drive.files.list(page_size=5, validate=False)

Disable it for the whole client:

api = FastGWS(validate=False)

Downloads

For binary downloads, pass download=True to get bytes back:

data = api.drive.files.get("FILE_ID", download=True)
print(type(data), len(data))

Or pass a path to write the response directly:

api.drive.files.get("FILE_ID", download="out.bin")

Uploads

For media upload methods, pass upload= with a file path or raw bytes.

Media-only upload:

api.drive.files.create(upload="/path/to/report.pdf")

Multipart upload with metadata:

api.drive.files.create(
    body={"name": "report.pdf"},
    upload="/path/to/report.pdf",
    upload_content_type="application/pdf",
)

CLI

The CLI is a thin layer over the same generated runtime as the Python API.

List Services

fastgws services

Show Schema

fastgws schema drive.files.create
fastgws schema drive.files.create --resolve-refs

Show Generated Docs For An Endpoint

fastgws docs drive.files.list

Show Endpoint Help

fastgws drive.files.list --help

Call Endpoints

List Drive files:

fastgws drive.files.list --page_size 5

Get a single file by ID:

fastgws drive.files.get FILE_ID

Use a query:

fastgws drive.files.list \
  --page_size 5 \
  --q "name contains 'report' and trashed = false"

Call Gmail:

fastgws gmail.users.messages.list --user_id me --max_results 10

CLI Output

• JSON responses print as formatted JSON
• non-JSON responses print raw values
• endpoint help prints the generated signature and docstring

Development

Build Generated Metadata

python -m fastgws.build all

Generated outputs are written to:

• fastgws/generated/
• docs/api/

Test And Style

python -m pytest -q
chkstyle fastgws tests --skip-folder-re generated

Generated Drift Check

python -m fastgws.build.check

Current Scope

The current implementation focuses on:

• discovery-driven service metadata
• runtime-generated method signatures and docs
• schema inspection and practical request validation
• media upload and download helpers
• OAuth login for the CLI
• ADC and explicit credentials for Python

It does not yet aim to provide:

• handwritten high-level convenience wrappers for each API
• resumable upload flows
• async transport
• first-class typed request and response model generation

Versioning

Version lives in fastgws/__init__.py as __version__.

Bump it with:

ship_bump --part 2
ship_bump --part 1
ship_bump --part 0

Release

1. Ensure GitHub issues are labeled with bug, enhancement, or breaking.
2. Run:

ship_release_gh
ship_pypi